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Paid election ads allowed only for candidates and their agents, say IMDA, ELD
The Straits Times|August 16, 2023
Election ads on Cooling-off Day and Polling Day, survey results during election period banned
- Goh Yan Han
Paid election ads allowed only for candidates and their agents, say IMDA, ELD

All Singaporeans are allowed to put up unpaid online election advertisements of their own accord, but publishing paid advertisements is allowed only for candidates and their election agents.

Those who are not candidates or election agents can publish paid online election advertising only if they receive written authorisation from a candidate or election agent following Nomination Day, the Infocomm Media Development Authority (IMDA) and Elections Department (ELD) said in a statement on Tuesday.

All paid ads must be declared to the Returning Officer by the candidate or election agent, and abide by existing requirements.

These include displaying the full names of those responsible for publishing it, those who approved the content, those who directed that the ad be published, and who had paid for or sponsored it.

IMDA and ELD added that Singaporeans who are not candidates or election agents do not have to follow the published-by requirements above if they post unpaid online election ads in their individual capacity, and not at the direction of others.

Singapore will go to the polls on Sept 1 should there be a contest. Nomination Day is slated for next Tuesday.

These details were revealed by the ELD, after Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong issued the Writ of Election last Friday.

So far, there are four presidential hopefuls: former senior minister Tharman Shanmugaratnam, 66; entrepreneur George Goh, 63; former GIC investment chief Ng Kok Song, 75; and former NTUC Income chief Tan Kin Lian, 75.

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